" Yet my trip to El Salvador revealed a gap between the promise and the reality. At restaurants, hotels, and shops, my attempts to pay with bitcoin were met with confusion or outright rejection. Despite a 2021 law requiring businesses to accept bitcoin, every establishment I visited turned it down."

There were protests around this back in 2022. See https://moneyontheleft.org/2022/07/16/bitcoin-in-el-salvador...